March 12, 2013, Tuesday - Lauren Stringer McKnight Fellowship Presentation at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Lauren Stringer McKnight Fellowship Presentation
 
Lauren Stringer, the 2012 winner of the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, Loft Award in Children's Literature, Younger Children, gives a presentation on, and reads from, her newest children's picture book, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky.

Lauren Stringer is an artist, author, and theatrical designer living in Minneapolis. She received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz and continued her art education with the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in museums and galleries across the country. In 1991, she received the McKnight Artist Fellowship for sculpture. She has illustrated numerous award-winning picture books, including Mud by Mary Lyn Ray and Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O’Connell George. She wrote and illustrated Winter is the Warmest Season, a Booklist Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. She is currently working on several book manuscripts of her own, as well as illustrating Tell Me About Your Day Today, written by Mem Fox. She is the scriptwriter and set designer for Circus Juventas, America’s largest youth circus, as well as a visiting author/artist in the schools. Her manuscript, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky, was selected by judge Justin Chanda, publisher of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for the 2012 McKnight Artist Fellowship. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will release the book in early 2013 to conincide with the centennial of The Rite of Spring.